John Tavares

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Those rectangular cubes coated in frost, smelling faintly of the frozen fish they’ve been hanging out with? The cloudy, oblong lumps that your refrigerator’s machine belches into a bin, terrifyingly, in the middle of the night?<p>Honey, those are so 1992.<p>If you’ve spent any time at all in good bars …

Upscale bars and restaurants are devoting their attention and time to making clear, dense, artisanal ice. Here's how they do it, and why you should care.<p><b>If you've been to an upscale bar or restaurant</b> lately, you've probably noticed that bartenders are paying a lot more attention to ice, from the …

Cloudy ice is so 2015. In this video, chemistry is used to create ice cubes and spheres that are perfectly clear. While clear ice can be made with the use of expensive equipment, the video's narrator teaches a step-by-step process to make it at home with a few simple and inexpensive, tools.<p>"I …

It's time to toss those silly spherical ice molds. Photographer (and inventive home bartender) Mary Anne Andrei and her husband, author Ted Genoways (<i>The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food</i>, and the forthcoming <i>Tequila Wars</i>), just blew the concept of cocktail ice out of the park. Earlier …

Nothing ruins a cocktail like cloudy ice, amirite? When I’m downing a gin and tonic, I want the ice in it to be as clear as the liquor it’s cooling. Why? Because I’m an elegant internet writer and I demand it! Unfortunately, for lack of freezing technique, I’ve had to make do with the sad, cloudy …

In the age of the craft cocktails, there's a lot to think about when ordering a drink: What type of base spirit do I want? Should it be shaken or stirred? Is it served with a banana dolphin? Does the bartender making it have a properly quaffed beard? The last thing on that checklist of imbibing …